Cooperative Cyber Defence
Centre of Excellence Tallinn, Estonia

Cyber Defence Monitoring Course

Dates
6-10 September 2010

Venue
CCD COE, Tallinn, Estonia

Course description

During the course, participants will study a number of important Cyber Defence Monitoring techniques and solutions. The content focuses on event logging and collection with syslog protocol, regular expression language and its applications to system/network monitoring, event correlation, and finally network intrusion detection and prevention.

Also, a number of open-source monitoring solutions will be discussed, including netfilter firewall and iptables utility, UNIX syslogd and syslog-ng event logging packages, Simple Event Correlator, and Snort IDS/IPS. Each module of the course consists of a presentation from the lecturer which is followed by a hands-on session.

Course outline

Day 1:

- BSD and IETF syslog protocols
- UNIX syslogd daemon
- Packet filtering with Linux netfilter firewall

Day 2:

- Regular expression language
- Introduction to event log monitoring with regular expressions
- Perl dialect of the regular expression language

Day 3:

- Syslog-ng event logging suite

Day 4:

- Introduction to event correlation
- Event correlation with Simple Event Correlator (SEC)
- Advanced event correlation with SEC

Day 5:

- Introduction to intrusion detection
- Snort IDS/IPS framework

Accommodation

Course attendees are welcome to book a room for a special price of 95 EUR in the Radisson Blu Hotel. Promotional code: CCDCOE

Contact

For any enquiries and further information, please contact Maj Leo Oja (leo.oja -at- ccdcoe.org; +372 7176 )

News

25 August 2010 CCDCOE Organises Two Technical Courses in September
15 July 2010 SACEUR Visits the Centre
23 June 2010 Hungary Joins the Centre
16 June 2010 President Ilves Opens Conference on Cyber Conflict
11 June 2010 Peter Flory to give an Ending Keynote at the Conference